DVD: Jill Balcon

DVD: Jill Balcon

DVD:

Jill Balcon

Edward II [Import]
Kevin Collins, John Lynch

Cooperdisc / Spectra Nova

Edward II
Kevin Collins, John Lynch

Cooperdisc / Spectra Nova

Elizabeth R

Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines

BBC Warner, 2001

Elizabeth R for a generation
Glenda Jackson brilliantly captures the emotional maelstrom which drove Elizabeth I. The production is typical BBC--great sets and costumes. The production shows its age in technical aspects, particularly lighting, but the core is the insight to the characters' ...

Edward II

Christopher Adamson, Jill Balcon

Image Entertainment, 2005

Christopher Marlowe's tragedy given new and innovative voice
As playwright Christopher Marlowe is considered to be the first Elizabethan Tragedian, and therefore pioneer to the up and coming Shakespeare (see Shakespeare in Love for an excellent film treatment of this subject), the late Derek Jarman, Fellow of the British Film ...

O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Thomas Allen, Jill Balcon

Tony Palmer Films, 2008

Excellent analysis of life and work of Ralph Vaughan Williams
This is a fascinating insight into the life and work of this composer. I ordered it specifically as preparation for an essay I was preparing on the composer, and found it to be both interesting and useful. Highly recommended for anyone interested in 20th century ...

The Six Wives of Henry VIII/Elizabeth R

Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines

BBC Warner, 2006

TWO GREAT PERIOD DRAMAS...
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII ***** This is a series of six individual plays that focuses upon each of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England. Written by six different playwrights, they are uniformly excellent. While the production values are not high, that ...